From what I understand xmonad creates virtual root windows on each screen to detect if focus should change. My guess is that plasma-desktop covers

Hi, I use xmonad with KDE integration[1]. After some changes it works surprisingly well, but there's one minor annoyance: the screen focus only changes when clicking on windows (or when the mouse cursor enters windows if focusFollowsMouse is set to True), not when clicking on desktops. The cause seems to be plasma-desktop, KDE's desktop, since everything works as expected if I quit plasma-desktop. The question is, is it possible to fix this somehow? these root windows. In that case, a possible solution could be to put windows matching _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE = _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DESKTOP below the root windows. But how? I'm still new to Haskell and xmonad, so a thorough explanation would be much appreciated. If you want to try to reproduce this, you can use this pretty standard configuration: http://mogger.ath.cx/xmonad.hs (I have just added kde4Config), and then run plasma-desktop. It doesn't matter if xmonad or plasma-desktop starts first. Thanks, Hans --- [1] http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Config-Kde.html